Social Movements and the Politics of Debt

Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-18628-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Protest and Social Movements

It would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North Atlantic Financial Crisis, Global Recession and European Debt Crisis - as well as the recent waves of protest that followed them - have catapulted debt politics into the limelight of public debates. Profiting from years of fieldwork and an extensive amount of empirical data, Christoph Sorg traces recent contestations of debt from North Africa to Europe and the US. In doing so, he identifies the emergence of new transnational movement networks against the injustice of current debt politics, which struggle for more social and democratic ways of organizing debt within and between societies.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sorg, Christoph

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. D.R.E.A.M. (debt rules everything around me), 2. Theories of financialization and social movements, 3. The financialization of capitalism, 4. Contentious debt politics since the Southern Debt Crisis, 5. Responding to the multiple crises of financialized capitalism, 6. Debtors' clubs and debtors' unions, 7. Who owes whom? Deconstructing debt fetishism, 8. Collective debtor action and prefigurative debt politics, 9. Towards a more democratic debt politics?, Bibliography, Index, Cover blurb, Cover image, Chapter abstracts, Biography

Über Autor(innen)

Christoph Sorg is a researcher in political economy, labor sociology and social movement studies with a PhD from Humboldt University. For this book he conducted three years of field work in Tunisia, Egypt, the US and several European countries.